BahamodettdroH.] xxxvj. burskrack^; (oliver). 325 



oblong, valvate or with the sides slightly imbricate and tips incurved in aesti- 

 vation. Stamens 8, inserted on or outside the margin of a cupuliform disk, 

 alternately shorter. Ovary 2-3-celled, narrowed into a short thick style; 

 stigraa obtuse, undivided, or margins tabulate. Ovules geminate, collateral, 

 pendulous. Fruit an ovoid or subglobose drupe with 1-3 bony, 1-seeded 

 pyrenes. Seeds exalbuminous. Cotyledons contortuplicate, sheathing the 

 terete pointed radicle. — Shrubs or small trees, often spinose, resin-affording 

 Leaves alternate, 1-3-foliolate or imparipinnate. Flowers small, fasciclec 

 on thickened nodes or short lateral ramuli, or on 1-4-flowered, axillaiy 

 jointed peduncles. 



A small genus of Africa nnd the desert tracts of Arabia aud India. The species much 

 want careful revision, but this cannot be satisfactorily attempted without more ample ma- 

 terial than we at present possess. 

 Calyx campanulate or tubular. 



Leaflets usually 3-1, crenate- serrate. Peduncles very short . . 1. B. africanum. 



leaflets 3-5, entire or obscurely undulate. Peduncles short . . 2. B. Opobahamum. 



Leaflets 5-11, serrate-dentate. Flower-fascicles distinctly pedun- 

 culate 3. B. pedunculatum. 



Calyx divided nearly to the base." 

 Leaves usually 3-foliolate ; leaflets obovate, glabrous . . . . 4. B. Playfairn. 

 leaves 5-7-foliolate ; leaflets entire, pubescent 5. B. moUe. 



1- B. africanum, Am. in Ann. Nat. Hist. iii. (1839) 87. A shrub 

 J small tree, usually more or less spinose ; extremities minutely pubescent 

 or glabrous : in desert situations with numerous lateral, subpatent, spinous 

 ramuh. Leaves usually 3-foliolate ; leaflets rather coriaceou?, median larger, 

 obovate, with a cuneate or gradually narrowed base, obtuse or broadly 

 pointed, broadly crenate-serrate, usually pubescent at least beneath or on ex- 

 pansion, !-!-£ i n . i ong) |_ x in broad .* latera i i ea fl e ts oblique, often less than 

 m as large as the median. Petioles equalling or much shorter than the 

 eaflets. Flowers fasciculate. Calyx campanulate or shortly tubular An- 

 ders of the shorter stamens apiculate. Drupe subglobose, slightly oblique, 

 SL a l-celled putamen by abortion in the specimens which I have seen.— 

 Xndelotia africana, Rich.' in Fl. Seneg. i. 150. t. 39. B. Schimpen and 



' Kotsc tyi, Berg in Bot. Zeit. 1862, 162. 



JJPPer Guinea. Sencgambia ! Kworra, Barter I 



w" e *■■*• Abyssinia, Schimper I 



"»o*amb. »istr. Rovuma river, Dr. Kirk ! 

 _ R ar - fwinicum. Leaves 3 -1-foliolate, glabrous, acute or subacute, not deeply crenate. 

 1359 '7?*2P m > Ber * 'n Bot- Zeit. 1862, 161. B. Kofal, Kth. ? of Herb. Schimp. n. 

 ' B - Kafai, Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 149. 



**>le Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Ugani, Speke and Grant ! 



«oxamb. Di.tr., Dr. Kirk ! 

 Verv a R r ; rat »03mimus. With numerous short spreading spinous lateral ramuli. Pet.oles 



J snort ; leaflets at length somewhat glassy. 



|* 0Pth Central. Kouka, E. Vogel ! 



use 'f b f t rd ' 8 , 6gUre in <F1 - Senegambia' represents all the anthers as tf^™^™^- 

 2S* M £***«■ i" distinguishing the Abyssinian plant specifically, bu n both ^ *?„ 

 WE.*?* Abywnka plant, I find only the shorter stamens with W*J"f*JJ _£ 

 ^Kewh erbar . um there ar ' e specimens of a Lycioid-looking 2?^ 

 ***** flowers on bracteolate pedicels, but without leaves, which a note by Dr. Kirk 



